WooCommerce - Social Login <= 2.7.3 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

2024-07-19 00:00

Vu Nguyen (maxntv)

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.7.4

Affected PluginWooCommerce - Social Login

Affected Version<= 2.7.3

CVSS9.8Critical

CVECVE-2024-6636

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Vulnerability Overview

The WooCommerce - Social Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'woo_slg_login_email' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change the default role to Administrator while registering for an account.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.7.4, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6636 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/77ea4ba8-6c13-494a-92e3-12643003635b

CVSS Vector

9.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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